Born a slave, married at 14, mother at 17 and widowed at 20. (Read more...)

At 33, Carson became the youngest head of pediatric neurosurgery in all of the United States. (Read more...)

Dr. Williams also founded the first interracial hospital in the United States. (Read more...)

According to ESPN, Jordan spent $275 million to majority own the Charlotte Hornets' NBA team. According to Forbes, the team is now worth more than $1.5 billion. (Read more...)

Kenneth C. Frazier is the first African American President of Merck & Co., a pharmaceutical company in the Fortune 500 - America's 500 largest companies, by revenue. (Read more...)

Burns started at the bottom of the ladder as an intern at Xerox and worked her way up to CEO. (Read more...)

Akon is the brain behind Akon Lighting Africa, an ambitious project with the primary aim to bring affordable and sustainable solar-powered electricity to 600 million African households and rural communities. (Read more...)

Boseman perfectly incarnated the Black Panther, as both King and a black superhero, first of its kind to defend his people, stand for justice and evict intruders from his country. (Read more...)

The critically acclaimed album “DAMN.” by Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar was the first popular music to be honored with the Pulitzer prize of excellence in music. (Read more...)

Joséphine Baker joined Marie Curie, Genevieve de Gaulle, Germaine Tillion, Sophie Berthelot and Simone Veil, to become the sixth woman to be inducted into France's Panthéon. (Read more...)